Italian

This salad is a riff on melon and prosciutto. We swapped the melon for jammy figs and sweet tomatoes.

Your answer to the age-old question "What can I make ahead of time and throw in my bag to feed myself (and, okay, my friends) when we finally make it to the beach/park/festival/fireworks?"

Buttery, garlicky, irresistible shrimp scampi—but make it pasta.

This classic-done-right is moist but not wet, extra-fluffy, boozy but not overwhelmingly so, and made with real coffee instead of espresso powder.

Risotto is like a clingy baby. And if you give it all of your patient attention, it will turn into a puddle of love.

Finally: an easy, cheesy, vegetarian(!) lasagna recipe that doesn't require you to dirty every pot and pan in your kitchen.

This (vegetarian!) Italian classic is about as comforting as it gets, packed with hearty greens, meaty beans, and plenty of rich olive oil and umami-packed Parm.

It doesn’t take a lot of ingredients (or a lot of money) to make a classic Bolognese recipe. What it does take, though, is patience!

The key to a soup with fully developed savory flavor starts with the soffritto—a mix of slowly cooked aromatic vegetables.

This traditional Italian braised pork roast may not be one of the most photogenic dishes you’ll ever make, but it sure is one of the tastiest.

An herb-laced riff on aglio e olio, quick and easy.

Almost as easy as opening a can of the store-bought stuff, and one hundred times more delicious.

The hands-off approach for this summery caprese recipe means no blistering the peppers on the stovetop!

Starting with store-bought pizza dough makes the dream of weeknight calzones actually attainable.

This recipe takes all the right shortcuts and none of the wrong ones.

This back-pocket pasta can be made with ingredients you have on hand in under 15 minutes.

The salty, springy bread that looks like the surface of a distant planet. Take us there.

Ain't no party like a sandwich party.

Because you need more butter-roasted things in your life.

When tomato season rolls around, this no-cook tomato pasta is our ace in the hole.